CS4 on a G4

[jerovo61]

Hello all,

I have a technical question about up grading to CS4 Design Premium. I have a Power Mac G4 with a Power PC G4 Processor, 867 MHz of processor speed, 2 CPUs and 1.75 GB of RAM will the CS4 design package run on this machine?

Thanks,

Jeff

 

[dukebound85]

no as per here

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/systemreqs/

 

[Blue Velvet]

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/systemreqs/

PowerPC® G5 or multicore Intel® processor
Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4
512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on flash-based storage devices)
1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card
Some GPU-accelerated features require graphics support for Shader Model 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0
DVD-ROM drive
QuickTime 7.2 software required for multimedia features
Broadband Internet connection required for online services*

 

[jerovo61]

CS4 on a G4

Yes, thanks, I had to get some alternate opinions because my company is on my butt to up-grade. 😡

Thank you both for your responses. I appreciate your time. 🙂

Jeff

 

[MacVidCards]

Nonsense.

I have it running on a MDD Dual 1.25.

Runs fine.

You would be better served on a Mac Pro, but you knew that.

Get a flashed Nvidia 6800 or 7800 video card and it will help....CS4 leverages them to accelerate operations.

 

[Scooby_Doo]

I've got Photoshop, Flash, and Illustrator CS4 running on my TiBook (1Ghz G4, 512MB RAM, Radeon 9000 Mobility, OS X 10.4.11). No you can't run Photoshop with 250 layers adding filters at whim, but yes it does run.

If you are used to the speed hit you take from running on an older processor, and keep your design decisions with those limitations in mind, you'll be ok.

I've done quite a number of Photoshop projects for my graduate coursework on this machine and intend to keep doing so in the foreseeable future. Good luck!

 

[miguel mouse!]

I'm running CS4 on my 12" 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 with 1.25 GB DDR SDRAM. I just couldn't install After Effects as it requires a minimum of 2 GB DDR SDRAM.

You gotta make with what you have 😉

 

[opeter]

I never understand people, why they wan't to run modern software on 5 or more years old hardware. It is the same situation as i would like to Windows Vista on a Pentium III with 256 MB RAM.

On a G4, Photoshop 6 (under Mac OS 9.x) and 7 (maybe 8) will run fantastic. You can do (almost) everything in Photoshop 7 as you can do in Photoshop 11 (CS4). Of course, only if you know how to use the application and also the techniques.